Guess the Architecture

Guess the Architecture is a place for engineers to test their knowledge of world architecture. Each week the CR4 team will post a different piece of architecture from around the world. We're looking for guesses at where it might be, or some information regarding the structure in the comments below.

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Re: Guess the Architecture! for 3/14/2017

03/14/2017 6:47 PM

You know what? I have learned a lot from you..... I know I am good at searching the net, sometimes I just sit back and watch a master... Anything positive I get from a respected member of CR4, I take to heart. You are respected in my book, and I thank you for any positive remarks. You put me on the right track with the light house, it was hard to find which light house, but I think I got lucky. I am giving you a G.A. just for the positive remark.

Plus, I can't do this at work, My home internet speed is 10 times faster than work. If I tried searching this at work, I would still be at searching a house on slanted stilts...

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Re: Guess the Architecture! for 3/14/2017

03/17/2017 10:12 AM

You are thinking about Spanish Galeon:

of which many were lost at sea full of doubloons.

Etymology of Gallon: Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French galon, from the base of medieval Latin galleta, galletum ‘pail, liquid measure,’ perhaps of Celtic origin. So please do be careful not to sling spit beyond the pail.

Doubloon: from French doublon or its source, Spanish doblón, from doble ‘double’ (so named because the coin was worth double the value of a pistole). And all along, I thought doubloons were Dutch coinage.

Just what about taking up a term into common usage makes it a bastard? No parentage?

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Re: Guess the Architecture! for 3/14/2017

03/17/2017 11:15 AM

"Sorry", but: "No", I was not thinking of sailing warships...

[did you not read the link...?]

... and ... bastardization of our (American/English) language is becoming a veritable sportnowadays ... even being taught in some of our schools, under the same guise as "inclusiveness/solidarity", etc. Pick somewhere, anywhere, to begin...

Re: Guess the Architecture! for 3/14/2017

Re: Guess the Architecture! for 3/14/2017

03/20/2017 11:15 AM

JPool nailed it this week with his guess of the Thomas Point Shoal Light, a lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay in Annapolis, MD. The lighthouse is the last Chesapeake Bay screw-pile structure in its original site. The University of Maryland defines a screw-pile light house as a structure “perched on iron piles or stilts that were screwed into the sea floor.” This particular structure is a hexagonal 1 ½ story building, with the lantern rising out of the center of the building.

The lighthouse went into service on November 27, 1875 to replace a light on the shore at Thomas Point at the entrance to the South River. You can see the full timeline, provided by the Chesapeake Chapter of the United States Lighthouse Society, here. The light and fog signal are still active. This was the last staffed lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay, but it is now automated.

Historic Images (Lighthouse in 1885, Lighthouse in 1928, Crewmen lowering Boston Whaler from station in 1968) from LighthouseFriends.com